Soccer Quotes

If soccer was an American soft drink, it would be Diet Pepsi

There is no pressure when you are making a dream come true.

Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do

Keep working even when no one is watching.

It's best being a striker. If you miss five then score the winner, you're a hero. The goalkeeper can play a blinder, then let one in… and he's a villain.

God gives gifts to everyone, some can write, some can dance. He gave me the skill to play football and I am making the most of it.

Soccer is what I grew up doing - it's my passion, and I'm way more comfortable on the field in my soccer cleats.

I once cried because I had no shoes to play soccer, but one day, I met a man who had no feet.

When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.

I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.

Your love makes me strong, Your hate makes me unstoppable".

I don't run straight at a constant pace; soccer is always a change of pace and movement.

Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it.

I am building a fire, and everyday I train, I add more fuel. At just the right moment, I light the match.

The vision of a champion is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion, when nobody else is looking.

It would've cost less, and left the previous owners with nothing, to go into liquidation. But it would also be humiliating for Celtic. So we paid all the bills. Celtic means the same to me as it does to other fans. I identify with the club and wish to be proud of it.

You have to fight to reach your dream. You have to sacrifice and work hard for it.

If you do not believe you can do it then you have no chance at all.

Everything is practice.

I enjoyed the position I was in as a tennis player. I was to blame when I lost. I was to blame when I won. And I really like that, because I played soccer a lot too, and I couldn't stand it when I had to blame it on the goalkeeper.

Anyone who sacrifices his dreams to reality is forever beaten.

My hobbies are cooking and gardening, especially growing orchids. I love soccer, my husband and I support a British team called Chelsea, and I also enjoy tennis. We have 3 cats.

Soccer is simple, but it is difficult to play simple.

The biggest things in life have been achieved by people who, at the start, we would have judged crazy. And yet if they had not had these crazy ideas the world would have been more stupid.

Nobody has enough talent to live on talent alone. Even when you have talent, a life without work goes nowhere.

Enthusiasm is everything. It must be taut and vibrating like a guitar string.

I have the chance to do for a living what I like the most in life, and that's playing football. I can make people happy and enjoy myself at the same time.

When you start supporting a football club, you don't support it because of the trophies, or a player, or history, you support it because you found yourself somewhere there; found a place where you belong.

Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.

True champions aren't always the ones that win, but those with the most guts.

Without football, my life is worth nothing.

He does things I have never seen from any other player and it really is marvellous to watch. It takes a great player to grab the bull by the horns and make things happen, but he has done it repeatedly. He has been even better than people here thought he would be and that's saying something.

If my mother put on a helmet and shoulder pads and a uniform that wasn't the same as the one I was wearing, I'd run over her if she was in my way. And I love my mother.

I like linebackers. I collect 'em. You can't have too many good ones.

I had no interest in fashion when I was younger. I was such a tomboy. I loved soccer, as you call it, or sports in general. The first time I was a bridesmaid, to my auntie, I refused to go down the aisle without my football shorts underneath my dress.

My game is based on improvisation. Often a forward does not have the time to think too much. You have a second, rarely more, to decide whether to dribble, shoot or pass to the right or left. It is instinct that gives the orders.

If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.

Every kid around the world who plays soccer wants to be Pele. I have a great responsibility to show them not just how to be like a soccer player, but how to be like a man.

Young players need freedom of expression to develop as creative players... they should be encouraged to try skills without fear of failure.

If you're in the penalty area and don't know what to do with the ball, put it in the net and we'll discuss the options later.

What a debut for the young goalkeeper, as a striker.

What I do is play soccer, which is what I like.

We don't sign superstars, we make them.

I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.

It was with a homosexual, I was barely 14 years old. But let's be fair, I wasn't the only one who did it. He was a man in Bauru that all our team visited.

In my time at Anfield we always said we had the best two teams on Merseyside - Liverpool and Liverpool reserves.

Some people tell me that we professional players are soccer slaves. Well, if this is slavery, give me a life sentence.

Soccer is a game for 22 people that run around, play the ball, and one referee who makes a slew of mistakes, and in the end Germany always wins.

You don't play triathlon. You play soccer; it's fun. You play baseball. Triathlon is work that you can leave you crumpled in a heap, puking on the roadside. It's the physical brutality of climbing Mount Everest without the great view from the top of the world. What kind of person keeps coming back for more of that?

Please don't call me arrogant, but I'm European champion and I think I'm a special one.